<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEEDINFO " title="NEEDINFO - erratic touchpad behavior, seems too sensitive to stray palm touches" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100571#c14">Comment # 14</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEEDINFO " title="NEEDINFO - erratic touchpad behavior, seems too sensitive to stray palm touches" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100571">bug 100571</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:bugzilla@colorremedies.com" title="bugzilla@colorremedies.com">bugzilla@colorremedies.com</a> <pre>Created <a href="attachment.cgi?id=131417" name="attach_131417" title="scroll.evemu.2017-05-19 three recordings">attachment 131417</a> <a href="attachment.cgi?id=131417&action=edit" title="scroll.evemu.2017-05-19 three recordings">[details]</a> scroll.evemu.2017-05-19 three recordings I have "sudo evemu-record --autostart=3 /dev/input/event5 scroll.evemu" running in a shell, and in another I have "watch ls -l" on the dir containing these files as they're created. When I'm typing, I have absolutely no ability to record in my mind what I'm doing mechanically with my fingers. Once these files appear, I try to replay history in my mind, did I intentionally use the trackpad? Did I have to move the cursor somewhere? I have literally no idea, it's simply not how my mind works. So these three events? Are they intentional? Or are they stray palm touches? I'm pretty sure they're stray palm touches because at the time I was typing I had no reason to move the cursor positioning. But I can't tell you with any certainty because I have zero mechanical memory of what I was doing; only the thought of what I was writing. It's probably the same thing as having a conversation with someone, and then asking them about the position of their tongue 5 seconds ago. They'd say, what? And then they'd have to think about what they were saying and what the position their tongue was in, and then they'd forget the whole thing. There's just no awareness of the mechanics as it's happening. And I have no ideas how to increase the certainty other than setting up a video camera to simultaneously record my hands typing as well as the screen with "watch ls -l" running, and match files to movements, but I have no way of doing that.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>